BUFFALO, N.Y. – Cultural critic Roxane Gay, author of the
New York Times bestselling collection of essays “Bad
Feminist,” considered the quintessential exploration of
modern feminism, will speak at the University at Buffalo at 8
p.m. on Thursday, April 13, in the Center for the Arts, North
Campus, as part of the university’s Distinguished Speakers
Series.

Her visit to UB was rescheduled after bad weather disrupted her
travel plans on April 5. Tickets issued for the April 5 program in
Alumni Arena will be honored at the Center for the Arts.

Gay’s writing has received international acclaim for its
reflective, no-holds-barred exploration of feminism and social
criticism, as well as her critiques of modern culture that are
known both for their wit and ferocity.

Her newest collection of stories, “Difficult Women,”
was released earlier this year and her painstaking examination of
body image, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” is due out
in June.

Associate professor of English at Purdue University, Gay is a
founding editor of PANK and nonfiction editor at The Rumpus. Her
writing has appeared in publications that include the New York
Times, McSweeney’s and The Nation. She recently became the
first black woman to ever write for Marvel, creating a comic series
in the Black Panther universe called “World of
Wakanda.”

Gay’s lecture is sponsored by the UB Graduate Student
Association.

During the program, audio and/or video photography, as well as
still photography, will be limited to the first five minutes of her
lecture.

Working media may reserve tickets for the program by contacting
Christine Vidal in the UB Office of Communications at 716-645-4607
or vidal@buffalo.edu no
later than noon on Thursday, April 13. Reserved tickets may be
picked up at the will-call window in the UB Center for the Arts
prior to the program. Media may need to show press credentials in
order to be admitted to the program.